Language, ideology, and point of view

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This systematic introduction to the concept of point of view in language explores the ways in which point of view is shaped by ideology. It focusses on the way in which people encode their beliefs and biases in a wide variety of media. Content: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series editor's introduction to the Interface series; Acknowledgements; Introduction: analysing point of view in language; Stylistics and critical linguistics; Using this book; Notes and further reading; Point of view in narrative fiction: preliminaries; Spatial and temporal point of view; Speech and thought presentation; Approaches to point of view on the psychological plane; Summary; Notes and further reading; Point of view in narrative fiction: a modal grammar; Modality in language; A modal grammar of point of view in narrative fiction. Abstract: This systematic introduction to the concept of point of view in language explores the ways in which point of view is shaped by ideology. It focusses on the way in which people encode their beliefs and biases in a wide variety of media